ANTIOCH — A two-alarm fire displaced a family of five and damaged two houses, a fire official said.

The fire also burned a fence separating the two houses after it broke out in the 1100 block of Medanos Street just after 11:50 p.m. Sunday, according to Fire Marshal Robert Marshall of the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District. Crews controlled the blaze at 12:29 a.m. Monday.

Both houses were expected to be salvaged, Marshall said, but each received significant damage on the interior and exterior, estimated to be worth a combined $600,000. Fire officials sounded a second alarm because the two houses were involved, Marshall said.

Only one of the houses was occupied, Marshall said. Its occupants were outside by the time fire crews arrived.

More in News

The California Highway Patrol has released a video of one of its helicopter crews performing a dramatic rescue of two British hikers who were stranded on the edge of a massive granite cliff overlooking Yosemite Valley as a major snow storm was nearing. The video, posted to Facebook by the CHP's Central Division Air Operations, shows a helicopter crew that...

A researcher at a university in the U.K. who came up with a mathematical equation declaring the third Monday in January as "the most depressing day of the year." A mental health advocate has debunked that theory.

While Trump's relationship with much of his base remains strong, two years after his inauguration his ties are fraying with some voters, the kind who voted in droves for Trump in 2016 in key pockets throughout the industrial Midwest and flipped previously Democratic states to him.